Invoking the 25th?

Mercury News' CASEY TOLAN: "A California congresswoman is calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from the presidency under a never-before-used constitutional provision."

"Rep. Jackie Speier, a San Francisco-area Democrat, said this week that Trump should be removed from office with the 25th Amendment, following his latest comments blaming "many sides" for violence after white nationalist protests in Charlottesville, Va."

"POTUS is showing signs of erratic behavior and mental instability that place the country in grave danger," Speier tweeted Tuesday night. "Time to invoke the 25th Amendment."

McClatchy's MOLLY SULLIVAN: "With the first total solar eclipse in 38 years just a few days away, the demand for eclipse glasses are generating serious scarcity."

"And just any regular pair of sunglasses won’t do. Solar eclipse glasses, which look like 3-D glasses, use a darker lens that meets the ISO 12312-2 international safety standard for filtering the sun’s rays. The high demand has led to a rash of counterfeit glasses, which could cause vision damage if used while staring at the sun. Amazon recently issued refunds for potentially fake glasses, according to Time magazine. Authentic eclipse glasses will have labels saying they meet the recommended standard."

"Looking directly at the sun without authentic eclipse glasses can cause vision loss or permanent blindness, according to the American Astronomical Society. The two minutes of complete totality, the point at which the moon’s shadow covers the sun, is the only time you can stare directly at the sun without eclipse glasses, the society says. But Sacramento is not within the path of totality, so you need to protect your eyes.

McClatchy's DAN SMITH: "Ross Johnson, the fiery conservative and former ironworker who led Republicans in the California Legislature and became a vocal supporter of campaign finance reform, died Wednesday in Sacramento of cancer. He was 77."

"Johnson served 26 years in the Legislature representing portions of Orange County. He was first elected to the Assembly in 1978, along with a group of Republicans who became known as “Prop. 13 babies” because of their support that June for the historic property-tax-cutting initiative, Proposition 13. Though the GOP never held majority control in the house in which Johnson served, he was caucus leader to both the Assembly and Senate Republicans during his stints there."

"The leadership job sometimes launched him into the role of mediator between fellow conservatives and emerging moderates in the party. It gave him great authority over many legislative matters, particularly the state budget, which then required Republican support to pass each year."

Sacramento Bee's STEPHEN MAGAGNINI: "Calling it an antidote for hatred and bigotry that boiled over in Charlottesville, Va., Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and the California Museum announced the Aug. 26 opening of a permanent exhibition that celebrates diversity and tolerance and stands against racism and other forms of discrimination."

"The opening of the Unity Center, which will take up a third of the museum at 10th and O streets, “could not be more timely – it comes in the midst of a national crisis,” said Steinberg. “The center and efforts like it are an antidote to Charlottesville."

"The Unity Center was inspired by the 1999 “Summer of Hate,” when two white supremacist brothers, Benjamin and Tyler Williams, set fires at B’nai Israel, Congregation Beth Shalom and Kenesset Israel Torah Center, all in the Sacramento area, causing nearly $3 million in damage. The blazes, among the worst acts of anti-Semitism in U.S. history, were followed by the firebombing of a Sacramento abortion clinic and the murder of a gay couple – Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder – while they slept in their Happy Valley home in rural Shasta County. The Williams brothers pleaded guilty to the arson attacks as well as the slayings, claiming that homosexuality is a sin they had to stamp out."

McClatchy DC's ANITA KUMAR/WILLIAM DOUGLAS: "Donald Trump sure doesn’t make it easy to be a black Republican these days."

"Despite the president’s decision to blame both sides for this weekend’s deadly clash at a rally organized by white supremacists, many African-American members of the GOP say they still support him."

"In more than a dozen interviews, black Republicans across the nation blamed Trump’s much maligned response to the Charlottesville, Va. events on his inexperience as a politician. They recall that even Democrat Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president, didn’t utter the perfect statement after every tragedy."

"The region’s largest school district will no longer give students a bland, alternative lunch when they run out of meal funds or forget their lunch money."

"Elk Grove Unified is joining districts across the region and nation that are changing rules so that children who come up short for lunch money aren’t embarrassed with a different meal than what their peers receive – or not fed at all, as has been the case elsewhere."

The Chronicle's HAMED ALEAZIZ: "Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Wednesday that the Trump administration’s decision to deny a delay in the deportation of an Oakland nurse and her husband who have lived in the country for more than two decades was an “act utterly devoid of humanity."

"The California Democrat visited the family last week after reading a front-page Chronicle story about Maria Mendoza-Sanchez and Eusebio Sanchez, who plan to depart for their native Mexico late Wednesday with their 12-year-old son to start a new life, while leaving behind three daughters aged 16, 21 and 23 who have legal status."

"It was Feinstein who informed Mendoza-Sanchez on Tuesday that last-minute legal efforts to keep them in the country had failed."

Daily Californian's KATE TINNEY: "UC Berkeley has been ranked the No. 1 public university in the world by the 2017 Academic Ranking of World Universities, or ARWU, released by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy on Tuesday."

"Although UC Berkeley was the top public university on the list, it was named the fifth best university among both public and private institutions. Last year, however, UC Berkeley was ranked third overall by ARWU."

"The list ranks more than 1,200 universities before publishing the top 500. According to its website, ARWU uses several objective indicators to rank the universities, such as the number of alumni and staff who have won Nobel Prizes or Fields Medals and per capita performance."